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@mono.co/connect.js
Official Mono Connect JavaScript SDK that launches the Mono account-linking widget in the browser for open banking. It lets apps connect users' bank accounts and retrieve statements, transactions and identity data. Mono is a Nigerian open banking provider.
Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to African Languages via Multilingual Adaptive Fine-Tuning
This paper introduces multilingual adaptive fine-tuning (MAFT) applied to 17 of the most-resourced African languages, producing the AfroXLMR family of models. Removing non-African-script tokens cuts model size by roughly 50 percent while matching the accuracy of single-language adaptation on named entity recognition, topic classification and sentiment analysis.
AfTerFibre African Fibre Optic Network Map
Open geodata mapping terrestrial and undersea fibre optic cable routes across Africa, digitised from operator maps into GIS format. The dataset is downloadable as CSV, SHP, KML, GeoJSON and SVG via the map portal and GitHub, and is also mirrored in the FAO data catalog. It is community-maintained by Steve Song under an open-data model.
AfriCOMET
AfriCOMET is a COMET-based machine translation evaluation model for African languages, scoring translation quality from source, hypothesis and reference triplets. The STL-1.1 version uses the afro-xlmr-large-76L encoder and was validated in the WMT 2024 Metrics Shared Task across 13 African-centric language pairs. It is released by the Masakhane community with reference-based and quality-estimation variants.
AfriHate Hate Speech Datasets
Multilingual collection of hate speech and abusive language datasets covering 15 African languages, built from tweets annotated by native speakers. Each instance carries labels from 3 to 4 annotators with anonymous annotator IDs, downloadable on HuggingFace. Published at NAACL 2025.
AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
AfriHate is a multilingual benchmark of hate speech and abusive language datasets covering 15 African languages, annotated by native speakers. The paper contributes classification baselines and hate speech and offensive language lexicons, and analyses why keyword-based moderation fails for low-resource African languages. It was released on arXiv in January 2025.
AfriHuBERT
AfriHuBERT is a compact self-supervised speech representation model based on mHuBERT-147, continually pretrained via multilingual adaptive finetuning on over 10,000 hours of speech spanning more than 1,200 African languages and varieties. It improves spoken language identification and ASR over its base model and acts as an encoder for downstream African speech tasks. Its training data was aggregated from sources including BibleTTS, Kallaama, NaijaVoices and NCHLT.
AfriMMLU (IrokoBench)
Human-translated multiple-choice question-answering evaluation benchmark covering 16 to 17 African languages plus English and French, derived from a subset of MMLU across subjects like maths, geography and law. Distributed as CSV and parquet on HuggingFace and forms part of the IrokoBench suite (MMLU, MGSM, XNLI). Licensed Apache 2.0.
AfriMT5
AfriMT5 (afri-mt5-base) is an mT5-based machine translation model from the Masakhane community fine-tuned to translate across 16 African languages using multilingual adaptive fine-tuning. It targets news-domain translation for low-resource African languages, several of which were not previously covered by existing benchmarks. It is distributed as open weights on HuggingFace.
AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages
This paper introduces AfriMTE, human translation-evaluation data with simplified annotation guidelines for 13 African languages, and AfriCOMET, a learned machine translation quality metric built on an African-centric multilingual encoder. It addresses the difficulty of measuring translation progress for under-resourced African languages and reports improved correlation with human judgment over existing metrics.
AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages
AfriQA is the first cross-lingual open-retrieval question answering benchmark for African languages, with more than 12,000 XOR-QA examples across 10 African languages. The paper shows that current automatic translation and multilingual retrieval methods perform poorly for these languages, where in-language digital content is scarce.
AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages
AfriSenti is a sentiment analysis benchmark of more than 110,000 tweets in 14 African languages spanning four language families, annotated by native speakers. It underpinned SemEval-2023 Task 12, a shared task that attracted more than 200 participants, and documents data collection, annotation and baseline methods for low-resource languages.
Africa Electricity Transmission & Distribution Grid Map
Open GIS map of existing and planned electricity transmission and distribution lines for all continental African countries and Madagascar, tagged by voltage (sub-kV to 700kV) and status. Four downloadable resources cover combined, existing-only and planned-only lines as GeoJSON plus a Shapefile package. Published by the World Bank on ENERGYDATA.INFO under CC BY 4.0 and last updated September 2024.
Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)
Standardised geospatial database of urban agglomerations across all 54 African countries, built from censuses, electoral registers and satellite imagery. Each urban area is a polygon with population and built-up-area attributes, available in 2015 and 2020 versions. Data is downloadable as geospatial vector files from africapolis.org under CC BY 4.0.
Afrobarometer Survey Data
Nationally representative public-attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society across roughly 39 African countries and nine survey rounds. Country-level and merged multi-country datasets are provided with codebooks in SPSS, Stata and CSV. Data is free to use; the most recent Round 9 covers 2021 to 2023.
Apache Fineract
Apache Fineract is an open-source core-banking engine for financial inclusion, providing the accounting, loan, savings and client APIs used to build microfinance and digital-lending systems. Written in Java, it is the technology behind the Mifos platform and is deployed by microfinance institutions and fintechs across Africa. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and very actively developed.
ArifPay
Ethiopian fintech offering a payment gateway API for collecting payments across multiple local methods, based in Addis Ababa. Provides a developer portal with sandbox and production environments and bank-grade security. Enables businesses to build checkout and payment flows for the Ethiopian market.
Bambara-ASR-v2
Bambara-ASR-v2 is an automatic speech recognition model for Bambara (Bamanankan) fine-tuned from OpenAI's Whisper-large-v2 using parameter-efficient tuning, reaching about 25 percent word error rate. It handles natural Bambara-French code-switching common in Mali's multilingual context. It is released under Apache 2.0 as part of the MALIBA-AI community initiative.
Beem Africa
Communication platform originating in Tanzania that offers SMS, OTP, USSD, airtime and voice APIs for reaching customers across Africa. Its SMS API sends to numbers in more than 22 regions with delivery reports, backed by documentation and sample code. Beem states coverage of 150-plus mobile networks and ISO 27001 compliance.
Bizao
Pan-African payment aggregator founded by a former Orange executive that lets merchants accept mobile money and card payments from multiple carriers through a single contract and API. Exposes Mobile Money, Merchant Payment and card APIs documented on its developer portal and Postman workspace, with 3DS filtering on card transactions. Focused on West and Central African markets.
CHT Core Framework
The Community Health Toolkit Core Framework by Medic is an open-source toolkit for building offline-first digital health apps for community health workers. Written in JavaScript, it is deployed in Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Nigeria and other African countries to support last-mile primary care. It is AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Chapa
Ethiopian payment service provider offering a developer API to accept payments, run transfers, create virtual accounts and manage transactions. Supports local Ethiopian payment methods and mobile wallets with a hosted checkout and REST API. One of the leading online payment gateways in Ethiopia.
Chapa MCP Server
Community MCP server for Chapa, an Ethiopian payment gateway, exposing 8 tools for payment initialization, verification, transfers, bank lookups and balance. It is part of theYahia's WWmcp emerging-markets monorepo and is published to npm as @theyahia/chapa-mcp. Ethiopia is not otherwise represented among the registry's payment MCP servers.
CinetPay
African payment gateway founded in 2016 offering collection and money transfer via mobile money and bank cards (Visa, Mastercard) across francophone markets. Provides direct API, hosted checkout and SDKs in JavaScript, Python, Go, Flutter and PHP. Headquartered in Cote d'Ivoire and serving multiple West and Central African countries.